Hitachi 88-02-0 Series Operating and maintenance manual

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G700
88-02-0x
Hardware Reference Guide
This document provides information about the system hardware components and the mechanical and
environmental specifications for the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G700 storage system.
MK-97HM85013-01
September 2018

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Contents
Preface..................................................................................................... 7
Intended audience............................................................................................... 7
UEFI Development Kit 2010................................................................................ 7
Product version....................................................................................................8
Release notes......................................................................................................8
Changes in this revision.......................................................................................8
Document conventions........................................................................................ 8
Conventions for storage capacity values........................................................... 10
Accessing product documentation..................................................................... 11
Getting help........................................................................................................11
Comments..........................................................................................................12
Chapter 1: Overview ............................................................................ 13
Block configuration.............................................................................................13
Features.............................................................................................................13
Chapter 2: System controller ..............................................................15
CBL controller chassis....................................................................................... 15
CBL controller front panel bezel LEDs......................................................... 15
CBL controller front panel LEDs (without bezel).......................................... 17
CBL controller rear panel LEDs....................................................................19
CBL controller power supply unit LEDs and connectors.............................. 19
Host, Network, and Drive Tray Ports and LEDs.................................................20
Front end modules........................................................................................20
10-Gbps iSCSI board LEDs and connectors (optical).............................21
10-Gbps iSCSI board LEDs and connectors (copper)............................ 21
8-Gbps, 16-Gbps, or 32-Gbps Fibre Channel (4-port) board LEDs
and connectors........................................................................................23
16-Gbps Fibre Channel (2-port) board LEDs and connectors................ 25
Back-end module LEDs and connectors...................................................... 26
Chapter 3: Drive trays..........................................................................28
Small form-factor drive tray (DBS).....................................................................28
SFF with front panel bezel............................................................................28
SFF front panel without bezel.......................................................................29
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SFF rear panel..............................................................................................30
AC power supply unit LEDs and connectors................................................ 31
Large form-factor drive tray (DBL)..................................................................... 32
LFF with front panel bezel............................................................................ 32
LFF front panel without bezel....................................................................... 33
LFF rear panel..............................................................................................34
AC power supply unit LEDs and connectors................................................ 35
Flash module drive tray (DBF)...........................................................................35
FMD with front panel bezel...........................................................................35
FMD front panel without bezel......................................................................36
FMD rear panel.............................................................................................38
High-density intermix drive tray (DB60)............................................................. 39
Dense intermix drive tray with front panel bezel...........................................39
Dense intermix drive tray display LEDs........................................................40
Dense intermix drive tray rear panel.............................................................41
Chapter 4: Service processor.............................................................. 43
Service Processor (Windows 10 Enterprise) hardware specifications...............43
Service processor description............................................................................44
SVP front panel............................................................................................ 45
SVP rear panel............................................................................................. 45
Chapter 5: Maintaining the storage system........................................47
Storing the storage system................................................................................ 47
Powering off the storage system........................................................................47
Battery unit.........................................................................................................48
Removing cables............................................................................................... 48
Appendix A: Storage system parts list............................................... 50
VSP G700 parts list............................................................................................50
Drive tray and drive configuration.................................................................54
Data and power cable model list........................................................................55
Appendix B: System specifications ................................................... 59
VSP G700 mechanical specifications................................................................ 59
Electrical specifications .....................................................................................65
Environmental specifications ............................................................................ 66
Shared memory................................................................................................. 75
Appendix C: Network access...............................................................77
TCP/IP port assignments...................................................................................77
Controller connections....................................................................................... 80
Physical service processor connections............................................................ 80
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Appendix D: Data and power cables...................................................82
Required cables.................................................................................................82
Fibre Channel cables.........................................................................................84
iSCSI cables...................................................................................................... 87
iSCSI standards............................................................................................90
iSCSI specifications......................................................................................90
Managing cables................................................................................................93
AC power cables................................................................................................96
Power cable assemblies...............................................................................96
AC connections............................................................................................ 98
Power cable usage guidelines....................................................................100
Three-phase power considerations for racks............................................. 100
Cable management.................................................................................... 100
Appendix E: Power distribution units for Hitachi Universal V2
Rack .....................................................................................................101
Americas single-phase PDU 1P30A-8C13-3C19UL.P.................................... 101
Americas single-phase PDU 1P30A-15C13-3C19UL.P.................................. 102
Americas three-phase PDU 3P30A-8C13-3C19UL.P......................................102
Americas three-phase PDU 3P30A-15C13-3C19UL.P....................................103
Americas three-phase PDU 3P30A-24C13-6C19UL.P....................................104
APAC and EMEA single-phase PDU 1P32A-9C13-3C19CE.P....................... 105
APAC and EMEA single-phase PDU 1P32A-18C13-3C19CE.P..................... 106
APAC and EMEA three-phase PDU 3P16A-9C13-3C19CE.P.........................107
APAC and EMEA three-phase PDU 3P16A-15C13-3C19CE.P.......................108
APAC and EMEA three-phase PDU 3P32A-24C13-6C19CE.P.......................109
Appendix F: Non-Hitachi racks.......................................................... 111
Non-Hitachi rack support .................................................................................111
Hitachi Universal V2 Rack rail kits....................................................................111
Hitachi Universal V2 Rack accessories............................................................112
Third-party rack support for DB60 dense intermix drive trays..........................112
Appendix G: Warning labels on the storage system....................... 114
Small form factor drive tray.............................................................................. 115
Large form factor drive tray .............................................................................116
Flash module drive tray....................................................................................117
Dense intermix drive tray................................................................................. 118
CBL controller.................................................................................................. 119
Dense intermix drive tray power supply........................................................... 119
CMA (used to secure dense intermix drive tray)..............................................120
Battery..............................................................................................................120
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Appendix H: Environmental notices................................................. 121
Appendix I: Regulatory compliance..................................................122
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Preface
This guide describes the hardware features and specications of the Hitachi Virtual
Storage Platform G700.
Intended audience
This document is intended for Hitachi Vantara representatives, system administrators,
and authorized service providers who install, congure, and operate the VSP Gx00
models.
Readers of this document should be familiar with the following:
■Data processing and RAID storage systems and their basic functions
■RAID storage system hardware components and operational specications
UEFI Development Kit 2010
This product includes UEFI Development Kit 2010 written by the UEFI Open Source
Community. For more information, see the UEFI Development Kit website:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tianocore/index.php?title=UDK2010
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Product version
This document revision applies to VSP G700 rmware 88-02-0x or later.
Release notes
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Changes in this revision
■Added support for 15 TB SSD
Document conventions
This document uses the following storage system terminology conventions:
Convention Description
VSP Fx00 models Refers to all of the following models, unless otherwise noted.
■Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F350
■Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F370
■Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F700
■Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F900
Product version
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Convention Description
VSP Gx00 models Refers to all of the following models, unless otherwise noted.
■Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G350
■Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G370
■Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G700
■Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G900
This document uses the following typographic conventions:
Convention Description
Bold ■Indicates text in a window, including window titles, menus,
menu options, buttons, elds, and labels. Example:
Click OK.
■Indicates emphasized words in list items.
Italic ■Indicates a document title or emphasized words in text.
■Indicates a variable, which is a placeholder for actual text
provided by the user or for output by the system. Example:
pairdisplay -g group
(For exceptions to this convention for variables, see the entry for
angle brackets.)
Monospace Indicates text that is displayed on screen or entered by the user.
Example: pairdisplay -g oradb
< > angle
brackets
Indicates variables in the following scenarios:
■Variables are not clearly separated from the surrounding text or
from other variables. Example:
Status-<report-name><file-version>.csv
■Variables in headings.
[ ] square
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Indicates optional values. Example: [ a | b ] indicates that you can
choose a, b, or nothing.
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that you must choose either a or b.
| vertical bar Indicates that you have a choice between two or more options or
arguments. Examples:
Document conventions
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Convention Description
[ a | b ] indicates that you can choose a, b, or nothing.
{ a | b } indicates that you must choose either a or b.
This document uses the following icons to draw attention to information:
Icon Label Description
Note Calls attention to important or additional information.
Tip Provides helpful information, guidelines, or suggestions for
performing tasks more eectively.
Caution Warns the user of adverse conditions and/or consequences
(for example, disruptive operations, data loss, or a system
crash).
WARNING Warns the user of a hazardous situation which, if not
avoided, could result in death or serious injury.
Conventions for storage capacity values
Physical storage capacity values (for example, disk drive capacity) are calculated based
on the following values:
Physical capacity unit Value
1 kilobyte (KB) 1,000 (103) bytes
1 megabyte (MB) 1,000 KB or 1,0002 bytes
1 gigabyte (GB) 1,000 MB or 1,0003 bytes
1 terabyte (TB) 1,000 GB or 1,0004 bytes
1 petabyte (PB) 1,000 TB or 1,0005 bytes
1 exabyte (EB) 1,000 PB or 1,0006 bytes
Logical capacity values (for example, logical device capacity, cache memory capacity) are
calculated based on the following values:
Conventions for storage capacity values
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Logical capacity unit Value
1 block 512 bytes
1 cylinder Mainframe: 870 KB
Open-systems:
■OPEN-V: 960 KB
■Others: 720 KB
1 KB 1,024 (210) bytes
1 MB 1,024 KB or 1,0242 bytes
1 GB 1,024 MB or 1,0243 bytes
1 TB 1,024 GB or 1,0244 bytes
1 PB 1,024 TB or 1,0245 bytes
1 EB 1,024 PB or 1,0246 bytes
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Chapter 1: Overview
The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G700 is a versatile modular, rack-mountable hybrid
array storage system equipped with drive boxes, supporting SAS drives, ash drives, and
TLC-NAND ash module drives, scaled for various storage capacity congurations.
The storage systems provide high performance operations by using dual controllers with
high-speed processors, dual in-line cache memory modules (DIMMs), cache ash
memory (CFM), battery, fans and ports to connect iSCSI and Fibre Channel I/O modules.
Each controller has an Ethernet connection for out-of-band management. If the data
path through one controller fails, all data drives remain available to hosts using a
redundant data path through the other controller.
For reliability, essential hardware components are implemented with a redundant
conguration so that the storage system can remain operational if a component fails.
Adding and replacing components, along with rmware upgrades, can be conducted
while the storage system is active and without interruption of data availability to the
hosts. A hot spare drive can be congured to replace a failed data drive automatically,
securing the fault-tolerant integrity of the logical drives. Self-contained, hardware-based
RAID logical drives provide maximum performance in compact external enclosures.
Block configuration
A storage system congured for block-level storage provides the ability to access and
provision raw storage volumes using protocols such as Fibre Channel and iSCSI.
A block conguration consists of the following:
■Two controllers
■One or more drive trays
■Optional service processor (SVP)
Features
All storage systems are highly reliable, versatile, and able to scale its performance by
adding more drive chassis and data drives. Depending on the system conguration, the
drive chassis oerings support SAS-interface disk, solid-state, and ash module drives.
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High performance
■Dual controller conguration distributes processing to each controller
■Equipped with high capacity cache to provide a total of 1,024 GB of high-speed
processing
■Flash drive conguration increases I/O processing speeds
■Equipped with 32/16-Gbps Fibre Channel or 10-Gbps iSCSI interface facilitates high-
speed data transfer
High reliability
■Main system components are congured with redundancy to maintain continued
service
■RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 6 support (RAID 6 including 14D+2P)
■Provides data security by transferring data to cache ash memory at the time of a
power outage
Scalability and versatility
■Small form-factor drive tray (DBS): Up to 24 2.5-inch HDDs or ash drives can be
installed (2U size)
■Large form-factor drive tray (DBL): Up to 12 3.5-inch HDDs can be installed (2U size)
■High-density intermix drive tray (DB60): Up to 60 3.5-inch HDDs can be installed (4U
size)
■Flash drive tray (DBF): Up to 12 ash module drives (FMD) can be installed (2U size)
■Supports system environments with mixed operating systems such as UNIX, Linux,
Windows, and VMware
Features
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Chapter 2: System controller
The storage systems are equipped with dual controllers for communicating with a data
host.
Each controller includes the following internal components such as a processor, dual in-
line cache memory modules (DIMMs), cache ash memory (CFM), battery, and fans. The
controller has an Ethernet connection for out-of-band management using Hitachi Device
Manager - Storage Navigator. If the data path through one controller fails, all drives
remain available to data hosts using a redundant data path through the other controller.
The controller is equipped with LED indicators for monitoring its operating conditions
and notifying possible component replacement.
CBL controller chassis
The controller chassis houses controllers, backup fan modules, and power supplies. The
chassis also includes specic functional LEDs located on the front and rear of controller
to provide its operating status.
The following table lists the controller board specications.
Component VSP G700
Chassis (4U) DW850-CBL
Controller board DW-F850-CTLM
Number of DIMM slot 8
Cache memory capacity 64 GiB to 256 GiB
Data encryption N/A
CBL controller front panel bezel LEDs
The following table describes the denitions of the CBL controller front panel bezel LEDs.
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Number Item Description
1 POWER LED Green: Storage system is
powered on.
Amber: Storage system is
receiving power.
2 READY LED Green: Normal operation.
3 WARNING LED O: Normal operation.
Amber: Component
requires maintenance.
Blink: Failure requires
maintenance.
Note: When System Option
Mode 1097 is set to ON,
the WARNING LED does not
blink, even if the following
failure service information
messages (SIM) are issued:
452xxx, 462xxx, 3077xx,
4100xx, and 410100.
LED might turn o during
user maintenance.
4 ALARM LED O: Normal operation.
Red: Processor failure
(system might be down).
For assistance, contact
customer support: https://
support.hitachivantara.com
/en_us/contact-us.html.
5 POWER ON/OFF (main
switch)
Powers the storage system.
CBL controller front panel bezel LEDs
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Number Item Description
6 Lock Locks and unlocks the front
panel bezel by using the
supplied key.
Note: Removing a controller can cause the POWER, READY, WARNING, and
ALARM LEDs on the front panel to turn o. These LEDs return to the on status
after the storage system recovers from the controller replacement.
CBL controller front panel LEDs (without bezel)
The following table describes the denitions of the CBL controller front panel LEDs.
Number Item Description
1 POWER ON/OFF (main
switch)
Powers the storage system.
2 POWER, READY, WARNING,
and ALARM LEDs
Note: When System Option
Mode 1097 is set to ON,
the WARNING LED does not
blink, even if the following
failure service information
messages (SIM) are issued:
452xxx, 462xxx, 3077xx,
4100xx, and 410100.
3 Controllers Controller 1 (bottom) and
Controller 2 (top).
4 Backup module N/A
CBL controller front panel LEDs (without bezel)
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Number Item Description
5 BACKUP LED Green: Power restoration in
progress following power
outage.
Fast blink green: Restoring.
Slow blink green: Restoring,
or sequential shutdown in
progress.
6 Cache ash memory N/A
7 ALM LED (for cache ash
memory)
Red: Cache ash memory
can be removed.
8 CTL ALM LED Red: Controller can be
removed.
Blink red: Failure with the
power supply unit of the
controller.
Amber: LAN reset switch
was pressed.
9 LAN-RST switch Use only when instructed
by customer support.
10 STATUS LED (for BKMF) Green: Charging of the
battery in the backup
module is complete.
Red: Backup module can
be removed.
Blink red one time: Main
battery failure.
Blink red two times:
Backup battery failure.
Blink red three times: Both
batteries failed or
preventive maintenance
replacement of batteries
can run.
CBL controller front panel LEDs (without bezel)
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Number Item Description
O: Battery is not
mounted, battery-
mounting failure occurred,
or rmware is being
upgraded. O is normal
status for congurations
without batteries (for
example, BKMF-10 and
BKMF-20).
CBL controller rear panel LEDs
The following table describes the denitions of the CBL controller rear panel LEDs.
Number Item
1 Power supply unit
2 Front end module
3 Back end module
4 LAN blade
CBL controller power supply unit LEDs and connectors
The following table lists the denitions of the CBL controller power supply unit LEDs and
connectors.
CBL controller rear panel LEDs
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Number Item Description
1 ALM / RDY LED Red: Power supply unit can
be replaced.
2 Receptacle Connects to the power
cable provided with the
storage system.
3 RDY LED Green: Normal operation.
Host, Network, and Drive Tray Ports and LEDs
The controllers are equipped with specic interfaces for connecting, powering,
conguring, and managing the storage system. The component LEDs display the
operating status of the storage system.
Front end modules
The following front end modules are available for the controllers. The LEDs display the
operating status of the module.
Host, Network, and Drive Tray Ports and LEDs
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